I emphasise it now; I had little-to-nothing in common with other people. Their values I did not comprehend, their ideals were to me a living horror. Call it ostentatious but I even sought to provide...

A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how...

Nowadays films and television are what I like to call “Microwave Media”. I like mine in the oven, giving the production time to simmer; get the juices flowing, and cooked to perfection. And that takes...

Television has an awful lot to do with the Kennedy mystique and the fact that he’s frozen in people’s minds at the age of 46, and he was handsome and personable and witty and charming.

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.

I think it’s up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like ‘Project Runway’.

I’m just an actor. My performance is not more important than your life. Stop watching. We’re false images designed to sell you products by exploiting your insecurities. To make you spectators in life, not participants.

I haven’t had a TV in 10 years, and I really don’t miss it. ‘Cause it’s always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.

What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books.

Television, in particular, doesn’t look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

I hid my feelings for her for years, and I thought all was well until my neighbor went digging in her garden and found them buried in the ground. I’m so embarrassed I could just...

Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished.

Idling is important. Most people don’t know how. They’re afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something.

Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course… you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.

Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hopelessness. But not always. Politics is also a great educator. Mostly it teaches, I am afraid, cynicism. But not...

A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.

When I was a kid doing television, they’d stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.

Americans were no more shallow than any other people, just more pampered, so they had come to treasure their shallowness, making pop singers and television actors their most revered leaders. Pampered but lovable. He loved...

Alford, Massachusetts: Mandy stood there with her old Nikon film camera, snapping photo after photo of the rural landscape. It was difficult to describe the wonderful feeling of there not being a single cell phone...

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that’s turned into entertainment.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They’re all addictive.

I don’t think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home or office. The door opens, and the person holding the...

When I was trying to find work after drama school in London, it felt like the same actors always got the plum roles, especially in television. We have a smaller market place, vastly fewer drama-producing...

I feel guilty because for a long time I didn’t allow myself a television, and I used to drop that fact in conversation to impress people. I thought it made me sound dignified. A couple...

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.

Once a coach, always a coach. I don’t think it ever leaves you. When I was a television analyst, I would study both teams and prepare a game plan, just as I did when I...

We’re in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has...

Televizyon okuma kültürünü yok etmiştir. Halbuki zihinsel gelişim için okuma eyleminin yerini hiçbir eylem tutamaz. Seyirci olmak için hiçbir beceri gerekmez. “Televizyon okuma-yazma kültürünü genişletmez ve pekiştirmez. Tersine, okuma-yazma kültürüne saldırır. Televizyon, herhangi bir şeyin...

That’s the miracle of television. They’ll fix it in the edit.

You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan’s Island.

Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing—too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes...

In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn’t want my name attached to....